In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic views, but I do not remember anybody being killed due to the tolerance of difference, to relativism; ethically relativism does not seem to be such an awful thing, really.

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.